Sowing the seeds of boredom

You know what’s cool? This is almost perfectly accurate as far as what goes through my mind during a day. Especially the Lucky Charms bit. You have no idea how often I forget the Lucky Charms jingle and spent hours trying to remember it. And who would put Reese Witherspoon at #100 on a list of 100 girls you want to sleep with? She’s gotta be at the very least around 15 to 20. In any case, it’s kind of a relief to know I’m not the only one who has entire conversations with my brain.

I’ve been thinking about buying webspace lately. It’s become a serious thought, even though my site has no visitors and such a venture would end up being a huge waste of money. But first, I need a domain name. And while I’m currently drowning in options of webhosts and domain name providers, I have a much more troubling conundrum. What should I use as my domain name? I seriously have no idea. “Torrentialequilibrium.com” would be too long and hard to spell (sadly, many of my friends are horrible spellers), and I don’t really want to use my name at all. It’s a very important decision that will require much thought and many opinions. This would be a question well suited to be posted at a certain message board, but alas, said message board is long dead.

Hearts, stars and horseshoes, clovers and blue moons. Something about a rainbow, then a red balloon. I’m sure an internet query would solve my dilemma for good, but then I’d have one less thing to do with my free time.

In case you’re wondering about today’s slightly-more-random-than-usual post, I’ve decided to stay up all night, and anything that passed through my mind that I deem important will end up here.

To answer another question that may be floating around in your noggin, yes, I do actually have a day planner where I’ve written down what I should be doing with the site each day for a couple weeks in advance. Currently it’s just a text file, but someday I hope to acquire some piece of technology that will be able to perform a similar function.

I don’t know how this will go over, but I’ve come up with a new genius scheme to attract more visitors. It came to me a while back when I linked to the Sneeze and I checked my referrers page to see that he had visited my site from his referrers page. So for the next however long, I will be making regular plugs to various sites in hopes that their webmasters will check my own. This will work as long as you make sure to click on any link I post. And I promise that no more of them will lead to anything potentially scarring. Sheer idiocy, or pure genius? You make the call.

Lastly, I’ve signed up for a deviantART account… thing. It’s a lot easier to upload stuff there than it is to add to my handmade galleries. Oh, right. The link. There’s also one on the sidebar.

It’s… Viewtiful

In comemmoration of my hit counter reaching 3000 (in slightly less than 3 years…), I’ve replaced the long-standing Torrential Equilibrium banner. It also reflects how awesome this November is for Viewtiful Joe fans, as not only one, but two new VJ games have come our way this month. Red Hot Rumble was released not 5 days ago, and I have to say it’s the most action-packed fighting game ever. The second, Joe’s first DS adventure, Double Trouble, is due out on the 19th, and looks like it’s gonna be another great game in the series. Now if only a Canadian network would pick up the show, I’d be set for a long time to come…

Forget it

I said I’d post an article yesterday, but I had it written all out and after thinking about it a little, I didn’t like it very much so I trashed it. Yeah. It just wasn’t up to where I want my material to be. And considering that 90% or so of this site is utter bullhock, you’ve gotta imagine it was pretty bad for me not to run it. So today you get links! Links to my favourite sources for celebrity gossip/bashing/nakies!

What Would Tyler Durden Do? – A good place to hear anything that might be important or funny. Honestly though, most of the humour is less about teh celebrities than it is just from the dude’s rambling. Also, the source of the aforementioned nakies.

Go Fug Yourself – The best site I’ve read as far as celebrity bashing goes. I recommend starting on the Britney Spears page. There’s nobody more fun to laugh at than good ol’ K-Fed.

Unmasked: RP’s Blog – Technically not centered on cleberities, but it’s written by Ryan Perry of GorillaMask.net, so if the old GMask (before it turned into a link dump) is any indication, there’ll be some good dirt in the future.

Band of the Month – November 2005

Before we get started, I just thought I’d mention that about an hour after I got my network set up, it went all iggldy-biggldy and even after spending several more hours trying to get it back, it’s still broken. I guess I’m just not meant to have a home network… Until I buy an access point! That will work for sure! Money down the toilet!

This month’s band is the third band I’ve reviewed that partcipated in the 2004 Nintendo Fusion Tour, but the only one that I was listening to before said event. I stumbled onto the Lostprophets way back in the day when WinMX was still the best P2P on the market. I just happened to be looking for ninja music (as odd as it may sound, I kid you not) and came across a song called “Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja” which turned out to be a really good song. But who were these Lostprophets that were credited with the song? I searched up a couple other songs, “Still Laughing” and “Ode to Summer.” I liked, but wasn’t taken enough to really look into them much more than that.

Lurch forward in time to early 2005. I’m shopping for CDs, and come across a band I know very little about, Lostprophets. I’d heard a little about them recently due to the NFT’04, and remembered that “Start Something” was a pretty decent song. $20 later, I walked out of the store with the CD in hand. And that’s my story. Also, somewhere in between the second and third paragraph, I’d heard the song “Last Train Home”, which helped make my decision. Should have mentioned that before.

So the band. Yeah, they’ve released two CDs. The first, The Fake Sound of Progress, came in 2001 and I never noticed. However, Start Something managed to catch my attention nearly a year after its release. As far as the fans are concerned, it’s pretty much a split between those who like Start Something and those who hate it. I’m in the former group. Those who hate it say that the first album is infinitely better, but since I’ve never listened to most of it, I really can’t pass judgement.

Start Something, however, is a totally different story. I think it’s a great album. Rather than run down each track, today I’ll just mention a couple high points. Firstly, I’d like to point out that the Lostprophets do a really good job of moving from one song to another. Most bands will finish a song and then movce onto the next. On this CD though, there is a segue or interlude between nearly all the tracks. It’s not a huge thing, but it’s a very nice touch. As for songs, I’m stuck between “Burn Burn”, “Goodbye Tonight” and “Sway” when it comes to my favourite song. They’re all distinctly different; “Burn Burn” is strong and offering a unique sound, “Goodbye Tonight” is a technically slow song, but ends up being really heavy and emotional, and finally, “Sway” is… Well, it’s “Sway”. It’s so soothing and atmospheric. If there is any one song you need to download from this CD, that would be the one. Not to mention that at the end if it, they go into another instrumental piece that counjures thoughts of a movie with a tragic ending.

Definitely a sweet band, check ’em out if you like the kind of new wave rock/emo/screamo business that I seem to enjoy so much. Though emo is a harsh word to use. It’s more of a civilized punk sound, as much as that seems like an oxymoron. Regardless of classification, the band is good. I shouldn’t have to say it a third time. You know, it’s odd. I can’t shake the feeling that I’ve reviewed these guys before…

All fear the SoulNet!

After, oh, five minutes of tampering, I was finally able to set up my home network, and now I have the power of internet in my room! Expect swarms of locusts and a blood-red moon anytime now.

So with that in mind, not only can I write articles in my room, but I can also post them! Ha… ha…. Yeah, it’s not going to make a difference. All it’s really good for is keeping me off the family compy so that others may (hopefully) do more productive things with it. The only downside is that I haven’t been able to unlock the mysteries of file sharing, so all the SoulNet (as it has been branded) is good for is internet. Which is still plenty damn good. I have an article ready for posting soon, but not today. Tomorrows will be the BotM and maybe the next day I’ll give you an article.

Three thousand

It’s coming up soon. Not much else to say about it, but I am going to put up a new banner to celebrate. Some of you may have already even seen it…

On a video game related topic, I was standing pretty strong for… four days. Today I couldn’t restrain myself, and bought Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix. But it’s not as bad as all that. I’ve wanted a DDR game for the longest time, and this was the perfect excuse. Now I just need to sucker someone in my family to buy another dance pad thing. While the game is all you can expect from DDR (assuming you have prior knowledge of the Dance Dance Revolution series), the songs are quite an odd bunch. It’s mostly remixed Mario music, as you would assume, and all the other songs are remixed classical songs. No popular music to be seen. Not that I’m complaining. The one thing that does bug me is that the “story mode” is the most ridiculous thing ever, but it’s not a big issue. There are actually quite a few mini-games too, but most of them are boring and not worthy of mention. There really isn’t much more to say, so that’s all for now.